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by cryptonector 894 days ago
> Git itself is nothing more than a set of tools to manage the versions of a repository.

"Git" is also the protocol, not just the implementation. Indeed, here I'm referring to the Git protocol more than to the Git implementation. There are multiple implementations of the Git protocol. GitHub is but one of several.

> But GitHub is not Git.

To the client it's indistinguishable.